I run Hong Kong's only alternative international school (founded 2005) and we have made SDG/2030 Agenda-oriented sustainability education a big part of our learning options, launching to coincide with the UN 75th anniversary. Our older students (16-18 years) are mentored through social initiative start ups within an SDG context. On 18th September 2021 we launched the first Youth Ambassador Asia Pacific Programme in partnership with UNITAR. With this group in particular, we are implementing Bonnici & Rayner's Systems Work of Social Change and will feed back to their research. I have taught Geography for over 25 years and this is the first I am seeing youth action being realised into impactful, organisational processes. We deliberately identify potential changemakers and mentor them on the basis of creating scaled impact through seeding their ideas, building replicability and facilitating their network of collaborations.
Very interested in learning from/collaborating with anyone with an interest in how youth can play an ever more important and explicit role in bottom-up, community-level social initiatives that address the development issues which form the basis of their lived experience.